Wireless client ethernet bridge?

RouterOS General
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I have a Atheros wireless card in station mode, acting as a client, connected to a AP.
Also in the mikrotik box I have a ethernet card that I would like to connect to the customers local network.

How can I bridge the wireless card to the ethernet card? The manual said that you can’t do this in station mode.

I know that you can do it with EOIP, but then you have to have another mikrotik box.

Isn’t their someway you make the mikrotik box just like a standalone wireless

ethernet bridge (example, Linksys wet11)

I don’t want to do NAT, because then the wireless client would be going through two nat’s to get to the internet.

I am trying to limit processor use and maximize bandwidth.

Is there a way that I can do this that I am overlooking?

2

simply make a bridge by this command:

/interface bridge add disabled=no name=netbridge

then put two port into that by this command

/interface bridge port set ether1,wlan1 bridge=netbridge

thats all

3

this question was in the forum quite a lot. try searching.

and no, you can’t.

using wds may be an option (i haven’t used wds yet)

there was a station-bridge mode, but it is gone in newer firmware again.

@hellbound:

do you really have a wlan-interface in station-mode(!) in a bridge-group? does it work? which firmware version?

regards.
matthias

4

Check the HowTo for transparent WDS-bridge configuration. This is the setup you want.

Regards
KimC
Djurslands.Net

5

I am not using a Mikrotik for the ap, only for the client, so is WDS still going to work for me? I don’t think so.

How do most of you configure your CPE equipment.
I want the Mikrotik box to be a CPE, and act just like a Seneao CB3 ethernet bridge.

6

make the wireless client and dsl-router device 2 in 1 for the customer. And if they need you can forward port to an internet ip. We use mt clients this way.Customers are pleased.

7

Maybe this will help and maybe confuse you all even more.

I have a mikrotik AP with 2 atheros cards both in AP mode and bridged. The bridge has been assigned an IP address. One card is running in 2.4Ghz Mode and the other in 5.8Ghz mode.

In another mikrotik I have 1 atheros card and 1 prism card as well as an ethernet port. The 2 wlan ports are both in station mode, and all 3 devices are bridged. The 2 wlan cards both point to the mt box mentioned above. If I disable the 5.8Ghz link, everything works fine, the bridge works and I am able to ping the remote bridge’s IP. If I disable the 2.4ghz link and enable the 5.8Ghz link I am no longer able to ping the remote bridge, even though the link is running at 36/36mb. In fact, as soon as that link becomes running, I am no longer able to ping the ethernet port even when connected with a crossover cable to a laptop. The ethernet port has its own IP address. I unplug the antenna, the link stops running and I am able to ping the local port again.

Both units are running 2.8.18.

So to answer your question, I have bridged a wlan interface in station mode (prism) with an ethernet interface and it works fine, but it does not work when connected to an atheros card.

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I too have been trying to create a simple bridge with a MT box where the wireless card and ethernet port are bridged and allowed to assoiciate to any standard AP as a client bridge (like a WET11, CB3+, etc), not just those that are MT running WDS. Is this possible, or has anyone found a way to make it work?